Detecting the Potential for Violence
By Jane Gilgun
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This article presents an assessment that helps professionals detect the potential for violence. The assessment is balanced and looks at both risks and protective factors. Rather than having a zero tolerance policy where a single risk can get a child expelled, this assessment looks at the whole child, especially the factors that show the child is at low risk to act out in violent ways. Children, young people and adults who have good relationships with prosocial people, can regulate their emotions and behaviors, and who have beliefs that promote the well-being of others and the self are at relatively low risk. Persons who have poor relationships with others, have difficulty managing their emotions and actions, and who have beliefs that violence solves problems are at high risk.
Jane Gilgun
I like to laugh. I like witty people. When I'm not writing, riding my horses, or working in my garden, I'm a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. I write children's books, poetry, books on children with special needs, and books on many other topics based on research I have done for many years. I also comment on public events. My writings are available on Amazon Kindle, iBooks, smashwords.com, scribd.com, createspace, and many other ebooksellers.
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Detecting the Potential for Violence - Jane Gilgun
Detecting the Potential for Violence
Jane F. Gilgun
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Copyright 2012 by Jane F. Gilgun
About the Author
Jane F. Gilgun, Ph.D., LICSW, is a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. See other books, articles, & children’s stories by Jane Gilgun on Smashwords.com.
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This article presents an assessment that helps professionals detect the potential for violence. The assessment is balanced and looks at both risks and protective factors. Rather than having a zero tolerance policy where a single risk can get a child expelled, this assessment looks at the whole child, especially the factors that show the child is at low risk to act out in violent ways.
Detecting the Potential for Violence
Persons who have to decide about the levels of risk for violent behaviors must look at a wide range of factors. The following is a framework for assessing the potential for violence. The framework covers five areas:
____One: precipitating events,
____Two: patterns of direct statements,
____Three: circumstances that increase the likelihood of violence,
____Four: signs of cumulative stress, and